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michael, good morning to you. you say a deal is a no-brainer. explain. >> we always expected some sort of deal because the politics are so bad on this. all of these hospitals, these backlogs, the politics or toxic for democrats and republicans plan not surprised. the question is does the deal fix the problem, which is all

the backlogs, bureaucrats pushing numbers around. >> what does a deal look like? >> there have been these reports bernie sanders independent democrat from vermont and republican covers been from florida were getting into test associations over this, i think it is going to be somewhere in the middle. you mentioned at the top of the segment the option if this comes out in the final deal, the option for veterans at the va hospital for dr. doctor care. lot of liberals didn't want to give on it.

bill: republicans did want to do that. you mentioned that solution. you still need leadership to impact significant change. >> i think so. he was forced to resign. a lot of hope on capitol hill this new guy that has been nominated is the guy to do it bringing leadership. it will be interesting to see that if he will come in and say listen, the old way is not the way to do it anymore. happy change things and nobody's job is safe. i'm pleased to the leadership and executive action from the va secretary no amount of legislation will do anything. bill: we will see what he can do here. thank you. what do you think at home? what congress get a deal to

talk to us on twitter this morning. martha: a lot of dangerous weather over the course of the weekend as well. powerful thunderstorms in michigan knocking down trees, leaving 200,000 homes without power. one man is describing what that looks like. >> i heard trees crashing through the house and water splashing through like niagara falls. taking a house his toes. every the inside, everything outside, the roof, the structu structure. we have to get rid of the trees to figure out what is what, so i don't know. martha: maria molina has latest on the weather hitting the country coming up later on "america's newsroom." bill: terrifying moments for beachgoers in california. >> people that were frightened for their lives, people running,

really scary. bill: more than a dozen people hit by lightning. we are live on the scene to see how everybody is doing today. martha: the u.s. has proof rushes play a big role in the fighting in ukraine. so whether or not we should give more to help them in their fig fight. ralph peters joins us on that. bill: congress allowed to take a long summer vacation. this question to a top lawmaker. >> will house republicans postpone your vacation as a present put it to deal with this problem if you don't settle it by friday. man their dentures with toothpaste.

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martha: have now called in the ntsb to investigate the deadly plane crash, which is a bizarre and tragic story. authorities say man was walking with his daughter on the beach in venice and was hit by this small plane that crashed landed after sending distress signals. a father was killed. that young daughter was airlifted to the hospital and is in critical condition be at the victims are from georgia. the pilot and passenger were not hurt. bill: of congress cannot pass a bill by friday, will they put their vacation off for a while?

>> congress is he working right now. >> will you delay your recess? >> whatever congress passes will sit in the senate or ultimately go to the white house, president still have to take leadership. bill: at town hall.com contributor and attorney and former democratic congressional candidate. what do they do, do you believe? do they get it done in four or five days? >> i'm not sure they get it do done. he has to call harry reid and say there is a bipartisan solution on the table from texas senator, democrats and republicans working together to repeal the process. these are solutions on the tab

table. let's take a vote on this because it is the only solution offered that can deal with the problem be at president obama wants money thrown at the problem. there is a bipartisan solution on the table considered and voted on by friday. bill: jessica, to democrats, does the president want a deal with a rather sit back and wait for more executive action? >> we are 99 days as of today out from the midterm election, i think it is a move everybody is in congress right now to make sure things are moving forward and something is getting done. the child immigration issue going on at the border, the other now is people are looking to get a major immigration reform bill passed. i agree, they will not not go on recess with midterm elections

coming up, and it is going to look really bad for the incumbents whether they be particularly with republican incumbents for them to go home and say to people we didn't get anything done and we didn't get a bill passed in the house where deal with the crisis. bill: i will give you a moment to jump in. but here's the deal, the president wants $3.7 billion to help the border. and changes from 2000. do republicans have more to lose on this? >> they offer solutions. fox has a lot of reporting on that, working with democrats to get legislation on the floor for a vote. it is harry reid, the senate majority leader with a democrat who said i won't do anything to bring this to a vote. thehave done everything to offea

solution. henry read isn't working with president obama to necessarily get the recess. >> it has to come from john boehner also be at that is why we have ways and means, money doesn't come directly from the senate, it has to be pass on both sides of the house, the coast have to pass it in the senate has to pass it. i know there are a lot of issues arguing over it, i think the issue here is what it is 3.7 or 4.7, we have to move forward. bill: we don't know. another thing, both the weekend, cnn did a poll if the election was held in the mitt romney versus barack obama, who wins? that romney is the winner by nine points. what explains that? katie.

>> obama campaign a lot of things that were not true. keep their health insurance, which was not true. please the people lost their health insurance plans. al qaeda on the run, expanding significantly since president obama was reelected. he said a lot of things that were very misleading. it wasn't honest with us and we wish we would have voted for mitt romney instead. bill: what do you think explains that? >> if you a lot of crisis in general going from immigration, international, people feel insecure and unhappy about a lot of instability, academic futures and in general this stage in the second term of a presidency, the president takes the hits for that. bill: especially when gallup has

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town eventually will be demolished and holdaway expected to take two years to do that. it was a, kidded task pushing it up right, luxury ships hit a reef off of tuscany. now on trial. martha: tragedy on a popular southern california beach, a young man lost his life struck by lightning on the venice beach swimming at the time. look at the rescue video at the beach, 13 people hit by lightning, 57-year-old man was also's truck while playing golf on catalina island over the weekend. >> i don't feel like getting killed today, and moments later all hell broke loose.

>> it sounded like a sonic boom. martha: tell us what happened. >> literally out of nowhere a bolt of lightning followed simultaneously by a jolt of thunder, it sent fisherman on the peer diving to the ground, the beachgoers running for cover, the shockwaves set off power alarms across the beach, lifeguards going into the water, this literally came out of the blue. the sky grew darker, huge storm clouds when suddenly a huge bolt of lightning hit about 20 yards off the beach, several witnesses say there was so much electricity in the era, their hair stood on end. they pulled a surfer from the water and could not save him.

one remains critical in the hospital. >> people that were frightened for their lives, people running, it was really scary. i ran out, trying to revive a surfer that was struck. it was incredibly loud flash like a bomb went off, so i knew it struck very close commen, its very scary. bill: the golfer will be okay but brush fire and many power outages. >> death by lightning is very rare. in california one in 7.5 million because we don't get those kind of storms. another reason is unexpected, we get 1100-inch of rain.

a bolt of lightning carries 15 million volts posted will die by the current under the ground. i was about 30 miles away, the sky looks like this, a nice day. it came out of nowhere. bill: stay safe. 28 past the hour now. a call for a cease-fire immediately between israel and hamas. the rockets fly, the missiles fly. the mcfarland will tell us where this is headed next and where the u.s. is on this. martha: feet the new members of

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>> they devalue our life, we assist in bombing civilians and then they blame the victims. martha: kt mcfarland joins the now, former deputy of defense at the reagan administration. welcome. fairly clearly yesterday on "fox news sunday," both sides laid out in this, where are we going from here? >> there will be a cease-fire be it i don't think there will be in the next 48 hours. you have a cease-fire went both sides feel they've gained something and achieves probably all they're going to get paid henry kissinger says you don't negotiate in the middle east until both sides are ready and they are not ready yet. why? it still has these tunnels they want to get rid of. there are these new discoveries, they want to close the tunnels

off. hamas hasn't achieved their directive either trying to turn public attention against israel. they know they will not defeat israel on the battlefield but they might defeat israel in the court of public opinion. how do they do that? showing a lot of civilian casualties to show israel as the aggressor in the world turns against israel by doing things like investing in israeli stocks were calling israel genocidal killers and primarily what their goal is to drive a wedge between the united states and israel so perhaps we slow walk any military assistance to israel to the iron dome. martha: so critical of john kerry in many papers. how do you think he is doing? >> the beginning of his tenure at century of state, spain objective would be for peace between israel and palestinians. they are killing each other, so part of it is expectations is

unable to deliver on. and what is his role in this? right now it is egypt offering the peace agreement and the secretary of state historically any kind of israeli-palestinian problem offers the checkbook, and we are not quite there yet. martha: when you look at what both sides want, the tunnels to be destroyed and hamas is talking about a woman chris wallace spoke to earlier, there are several religious groups who said they really want to have their borders opened up because they feel they are living in a prison and benjamin netanyahu said they will bring in more concrete, build more tunnels. it is hard to imagine any kind of real conclusion or agreement here. >> that is the objective. looking for peace for couple of more years of calm. one thing that struck me is if

you watch these interviews, what is the visual you take away? on the other screen you have the women and children in gaza with civilian casualty. hamas is doing this very casually. a question we would all want to ask them, why are you putting children in front of your missiles? putting missiles in the basement of schools. why is your headquarters in a hospital? instead, what we see, they think they can continue to prevail. can they turn the world against israel? martha: mike rogers was talking about hamas involvement over the weekend, but appears to be an emerging competition, how dangerous is that collective? >> you asked the key question, what happens when these

anti-israeli groups get together? they all want the destruction of israel. the supreme leader of iran saying the world will be a better place without israel. what happens if they all get together and gang up on israel and it isolated in a dangerous neighborhood at the same time the europeans and americans walk away from israel. that is the worst possible outcome of all of this and prescription for a major middle east conflict. martha: the president has been criticized a lot for not showing enough leadership in this situation, is there anything he can do at this point that would make a difference? >> you don't just say israel has a right to defend itself, but you give them the means for which to defend themselves. don't let israel become so i decided from the world community, that is another thing the world is looking at.

i have dual citizenship and i don't want my family to be subjected to this. martha: good to see you as always. bill: the baseball hall of fame has inducted its newest members. the largest class of living inductees, what a class it is good greg maddux and tom glavine along with the big hurt frank thomas from the chicago white sox, and three great managers of the time, bobby cox of atlanta, tony larissa of st. louis and joe torre of the new york yankees had a moving message for current players and future players of baseball. >> there is a power to both patients and persistence. baseball is a game of life, it is not perfect, but it feels like it is, that is the magic of it.

we are responsible for giving it the respect it deserves. our sport is part of the american soul, and it is ours to borrow, to take care of it for a time and pass it on for the next generation. bill: ours to borrow. martha: he forgot to mention george steinbrenner. he said the second after he walked off he forgot to thank george. maybe he said it is perfect. bill: frank thomas did a great speech about his father. a lot of people forget how great the braves were for so long. martha: a big burly guy talking about his dad with tears in his eyes, a really nice moment. one of the world's deadliest

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bill: united states government has proof of the fighting in ukraine not only a war of words between the u.s. and moscow, but a war of pictures and evidence. u.s. release settl said light is coming to show russian forces firing artillery shells from russian territory supporting the rebel forces ukraine.

good morning to you. how good do you think is this evidence? >> we have had evidence for months of what they have been up to, military intelligence officers, the kgb officers and eastern ukraine pretending they are ukrainian national leaders. we know they're supplying more and more heavy weapons, we know the russian air defense systems shot down malaysian airliner, laying out very hard data talking about two specifics. by the way we have far better capabilities than this, this is where commercial grade imagery of is talking about.

i'm not going to go into classified staff only to say when it comes to the overhead collection satellites the american people are getting their money's worth. looking at the scorched area underground when missiles like multiple rocket launchers are firing, they scorched the earth behind them, so we can tell approximately where they were fired, the caliber of the fire, the trajectory. the other hand inside ukraine, you can tell from a crater the trajectory, the ark of the missile, where it was fired fr from. back in the days of the horse calgary, i always was told it was a 35 charlie. it is very important work.

bill: so critical too. you have russia had to rights. you have evidence they are firing into ukraine taking on the ukrainian government. how is he going to respond to something like that? >> has already responded. that works. the latest poll is at 90%. people believe what they want to believe. around the world there are people who want to believe america is bad, even europeans. so many german leftist sympathized with putin. putin will continue the big lie,

those russian operatives, as the military makes real progress on the ground and coming close to cutting these rebels, while we have intervened on the ground? bill: in a don't respond to this, when will we do something? >> when they invade poland. bill: calling for a cease-fire. is that effective or falling on deaf ears? >> that is stupid. clearly the first two words learned were cease-fire. israel, gaza. cease-fire, cease-fire as putin is trying to gobble up eastern

ukraine, a cease-fire right now would mean everything froze in place and they could not plant their own territory of these russian invaders is what they are. bill: appreciate your insight, thank you. martha: about 100 days away from the big midterm elections. in a major fundraising pitch telling supporters the g.o.p. is planning to impeach the president. scott brown joins us live responding to that story. bill: they have never seen anything like this. >>

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bill: a wild night for keith urban fans massachusetts. emergency crews treating 40 people at a concert over the weekend, 22 of them went to the hospital. many of them had a bit too much to drink. >> they had injuries or were intoxicated, at one time we had 11 ambulance cued up. they were inside, in the lawn area out along the inside, along everywhere. bill: police rounded up more than 50 people before things were a bit calm.

martha: a group in west africa confirming two americans have tested positive for the ebola virus. the medical director in liberia being treated at a hospital, and an aid worker also contracting the disease which has killed 100 in liberia, thre. ebola is one of the most deadly. what is ebola, why is this getting out of control? >> i am concerned about this. i was one of the people always downplaying ebola. it starts off with a fever, muscle aches, we believe fruit bats carry yet, but a few days after these flulike symptoms. only start to have bleeding and

the bleeding cannot be stopped and that is why it is so deadly. 90% of people die from it. this new strain is spreading in west africa. i think it is more contagious, little less deadly, 60%, but that is what viruses do, they evolve. if they kill the foes, they will not survive. of the host lives, they can jump to the next person. it does not spread through the air. martha: how do people get it? >> it spreads through secretion, blood, touch, so it is happy these villages because infectious precautions are not taken properly and they don't realize it can live on surfaces for a while. "the new york times" had an amazing article on the front page about villagers to the red cross truck coming and they say that is the ebola truck and

they run away and go to traditional medical doctors who don't understand how viruses are spread. in welfare trying to disinfect everything which is the only way to prevent spreading. people living very close together, i am concerned the world health organization is calling an epidemic an emergency will get worse before it gets better. martha: what about the possibility of could be transported here? >> you will not get this through the air or the plane. you're not going to get the ball of, but if somebody got a bit was sick thinking they had the flu and went on the plane or you touch them or the surface it is possible to be transported that way. usually try to calm knees. here is the second virus. if people don't take precautio precautions, you spread it being afraid. i am concerned about the possibility of it coming here.

it can live on the surface for several hours but keep in mind they are in close contact, that is why they are afraid of doctors. you are a doctor giving your life tee teeing a hero to save people in the trenches with people with blood secretions, you end up hitting it. martha: awful, we hope they recover. they are doing great work. they are afraid of the medical profession an some of these villages. >> doctors without borders is a great organization. bill: great concern over the death toll in gaza as another cease-fire. is diplomacy a lost cause? how to end this conflict. brit hume weighs in with his take a moment. martha: severe storm sweeps the south. more watches and warnings expected, we will tell you where you need to be for this one when we come back.

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martha: we start with a fox news alert. the tensions and bombing between israel and hamas continue. just hours after the u.n. called for an immediate cease-fire. n explosions] martha: those are sound we're hearing all along the border. they are firing artillery and launching several airstrikes into gaza responding to rockets fired into israel. that is what a cease-fire looks like at different junctions. we had moments of reprieve. not so much anymore. well to a brand new hour of america's newsroom. i'm martha maccallum i'm bill hemmer. demanding an inimmediate and unconditional truce on humanitarian ground but there were several hours of quiet at the start of a major muslim holiday. that quiet did not last long. president obama calling israeli

prime minister benjamin netanyahu on sunday to express his concern after secretary of state john kerry and his efforts to get a cease-fire fell short. martha: talk about that with brit hume, our senior political analyst. >> good morning, martha. martha: the efforts seem to be falling short on the part of this administration so far. >> it is not clear the administration had in mind anything that both side would accept. cease-fires are fine if both sides sees firing. and also helpful if you have a path to lead to settlement with issue at hand. what is the issue at hand? israel is trying to suppress the rocket fire which hamas and its adherents and gaza pumping into israel for years and year now and apparently been able to construct for further attacks on israel this network of tunnels which gaza is now honeycombed. the israelis are trying to put

an end to all of that. did john kerry and president obama determine that their mission was illegitimate? that the cost in civilian deaths was so great that it wasn't worth the candle of the effort? is that what they're saying? they're not articulating that. so one has to question what good a cease-fire would do. martha: great point. let's listen to madeleine albright over the weekend who summed it up. >> these are huge game-changers and we are, a lot of americans, trying to figure out where the countries are. most americans knew very little about islam. they certainly didn't know a difference between shia and sunni. there are awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation but to put it mildly the world is a mess. martha: she says the world is a mess. she went on to defend the president in terms of the golf trips and some call detachment from some of these big issues. clearly is surprise to know one realization that the world is a

mess, brit? >> the hot spots and trouble spots have multiplied in recent years. and it is comes at a time when the president of the united states has been operatings on the idea that a big part of what was wrong with the world was the size of the american footprint, particularly militarily. if we could end these conflicts, afghanistan and iraq to name two. and if we stayed out of others, syria, for example, that the things would get better and his personality and the force of his diplomacy would have a healing effect on the world. well it is pretty hard to say at this juncture that is happening. and so the question arises, do we need a more muscular approach? for years we practiced in this country a brand of diplomacy which surprisingly enough was not very widely practiced and that is, your diplomacy is backed up by the possible, possibility that you might use

force. you might apply force. this president is in the habit of taking that option off the table at the beginning of his efforts to resolve these conflicts. you're trying to deal with the russians in ukraine and you announce there will not be any role for american ground troops or any military option. he has done the same in number of other places. i'm not saying the application of force is necessary but when you take it off the table entirely, that doesn't necessarily work either. it certainly hasn't been working very well for this president and this secretary of state. martha: they're discussing in the white house the possibility of giving some intel help to the you cranes with picture and information that we have about where russia's launching areas are. that seems like something that would be pretty helpful to the ukraine but it is in discussion at this point what we're hearing. >> they're fretting about the possibility if you give the data to ukraine it might end up falling into the wrong hand and so on. there are always reasons to worry when you undertake one of

these missions and you share intelligence. but you have to decide i think, whether you can do it and whether it would help. you know are think about this turning for a moment to the conflict between israel and hamas. remember back in, just at the turn of the century when, israel was trying to suppress the second intifada and ariel sharon was carrying out military operations against the palestinians to do that. president bush after first trying to broker various deals and agreement and so forth, after 9/11, he backed off from that and supported charron and let him have his head, if you will, in trying to suppress the second enat this todd today which eventually the israelis were able to do. and for that, and result of that was period of relative calm in those areas where the intifada had occurred. martha: indeed. >> one wonders whether the same

policy netanyahu might net the same result it did back then. martha: colonel ralph betters saying the same thing moments ago and whether cease-fire is the best thing. bret, thank you very much. we'll see you next time. >> thanks. bill: breaking news too. northern africa, two days after security got so bad in libya the u.s. shut down the embassy in the capitol city of tripoli, the libyan government calling for international help. after a oil depot catches fire as rival militias battle for control of airport. everyone with three-mile radius of airport is ordered to get out. the u.s. closed its embassy in tripoli. they evacuated to neighboring tunisia under military es court. the state department said it will be suspended until security situation in libya is improved. >> into meantime in this country here at home, extreme weather causing major damage in parts of

the south. possible tornado destroying 10 homes in tennessee. no injuries reported. in kentucky, meanwhile heavy wind toppling trees leaving many homes and vehicles damaged as a result. no confirmation yet on possibility of that being a tornado. no injuries either. meteorologist maria molina live in the weather center. it is active out there, maria. hello. >> good to see you, bill. good morning, everybody. a little unusual of this type of activity in this season. this is typical of spring. we're looking into july. yesterday i happened to be in eastern kentucky. we were chasing some storms out there and able to capture this video. this is southeastern kentucky. very tough storm chasing terrain. you have a mountains and hills and a lot of vegetation. a lot of trees block the view. right there, clearly several funnels coming trying to touch down and reports, 350 reports of severe weather not only across parts of kentucky, tennessee and

parts of ohio and portions of the northeast. up into the interior of new england and the new york region. a lot of severe weather yesterday. we have the risk to see more severe storms today. look what we have on the radar image. across portions of the northeast, you have areas of rain, storms across the region. we did have a tornado warning get issued to the northeast city of boston. just outside of the boston, downtown area. these are isolated cells. if anything you could look at brief rotation with some of these storms and a brief tornado coming down. this is a risk right now again to the northeast of the city of boston. when these warnings get issued you need to seek shelter immediately. later today into this evening, we have more widespread area that could look at severe weather, stretching from southern parts of alabama, mississippi, eastward, georgia, carolinas. large hail and damaging wind and tornadoes possible, bill. bill: maria molina in the weather center. keep us up-to-date. i know you will.

thanks, maria. martha: wildfires personning across the -- burning across the west causing hundreds of evacuations. the sand fire east of sacramento is 50% contained after burning six square miles and forcing hundreds much families to run from the raging flames. >> you grab your family, that is the most important thing. that's what i told my wife. i have 2-month-old baby and 3-year-old. my whole thought is my family first. >> my daughter was 40 minutes behind me last night. they wouldn't let her in. >> what does it feel like when the knock on the door comes? >> i hope i make it out. martha: several states fighting fires. dan springer live in seattle. dan, how bad is it up there? >> reporter: martha the property damage in washington state is staggering. so far 400 square miles burned in one fire alone in this state. the carlton fire as is called is already the largest in state history t has burned 300 homes, knocked out power throughout

much of central washington and driven thousands of people from their homes. now there is word that some small towns are dealing with looters. there is the huge financial cost. 2500 firefighters worked this fire alone over past two weeks. the price tag? over $23 million. that pushed the state total forethe season above $50 million. unlike california which is in severe drought, this was not expected to be a bad fire season in washington state. only $19 million was budgeted at the state level. ultimately the federal government will pay lion's share. interior department expects this fire season to cost between 1.2 and $2 billion, martha. martha: today there is some new concerns elsewhere in california, right? >> that's right. first in southern california in may. and now northern california is getting hit very hard. the latest amador county. it is threatening 500 more homes. this is the sand fire.

it is burning 3800 acres. there is fire burning outside of yosemite national park that. could affect tourism. the sobering news, martha, the fire season has a long way to go. possibly three more months of this. back to you. martha: money may be running out. dan, thank you very much. bill: the idea of impeaching the president floating around washington? >> impeachment is off the table. >> the white house wants to talk about impeachment and ironically trying to fund raise off of that too. bill: not just republicans are bringing this up. how democrats could use the possibility of impeachment to drum up more campaign dollars. martha: kind of backwards, right? as the u.s. prepares for total troop withdrawal for afghanistan. new fears that thousands of u.s. weapons may have disappeared into the hand of insurgents. bill: also this unusual and violent lightning storm striking people on popular california beach, killing one of them. how did this happen? >> they said right before it hit, you could feel like there

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bill: boko haram back at it now. apparently retaliating against the country of cameroon for interfering with its fight against the nigerian military. the islamist group kidnapping the vice prime minister's wife among others in an attack that reportedly caused multiple deaths.

cameroon has become increasingly involved in the fight against the extremist group despite the group's warning to stay out of it to risk further attacks of the group still holds, boko haram, still holds hundreds of nigerian schoolgirls they kidnapped back in april. martha: house speaker john boehner prepares his lawsuit against president obama over his use of executive actions, some high-profile republicans have called, some of them for impeachment of the president but they're not only ones. the white house itself has been talking a lot about this potential impeachment even though a lot of members of the gop want nothing to do with it. it is being used by some democrats to drive up their fund-raising dollars. however house republican steve scalise talked to chris wallace this weekend. he says the whole impeachment thing is a ploy to distract voters. >> we're going to continue to be a check and balance against the administration. >> but impeachment is off the table. >> white house is ironically talking about impeachment and

they're fund-raising. >> i'm asking you, sir. >> the white house will do anything they have can to change the topic against president's failed agenda. people are buying pie high costs for food, health care, the president isn't trying to solve the problems and trying to change the subject. martha: scott brown, former massachusetts and now a candidate for u.s. senate in new hampshire, good to have you with us. >> good morning, mart. that good to be on. martha: thank you. what do you think about this? this is crazy when you think about it. sarah palin brought up issue of impeachment. gained no traction. couple talk though hosts liked idea. now there seems to be a move to convince americans that all republicans are interested in that option. >> well, first of all, i don't agree with that at all. i think that there is no appetite for impeachment for the president. listen, here is the best check and balance. people sitting at the dinner table, going out complaining with their friends about the

state of affairs, the failed obama policies and agenda the best way to do that take back the senate. a lot of republicans to take back the senate and be that check and balance, make harry reid the minority leader, how good would that be? take all the bills on his desk right now and pass them, put them on the president's desk. see where his alliances really are. that is the check and balance. impeachment is another effort, i agree with the congressman, to shift the blame to somebody else for what is happening, those failed policies in washington. martha: well, we all remember the last time that impeachment was on everyone's lips in washington. it didn't end upturning out to be a very good next election for republicans. some think that that is what is afoot once again. here is a tweet from press secretary josh earnest. this is just one. dan pfeiffer made comments as well. here is one example why steve scalise says he thinks the white house is one talking about it. house gop wrong priorities. new whip scalise won't rule in

border vote this week. won't rule out impeachment. do you think there is collective effort to keep this word floating around? >> i think the president and his as allies would do anything to shift away from things that matter. right now immigration is a failure. the fact that the president doesn't have proper immigration policy, our border is broken. you look at our energy policy, our foreign policies. our allies don't trust us or respect us and right now our foes don't fear or respect us as well. so there is some very real props throughout the world and throughout this country that the president wants to shift that blame to someone else. martha: what do you see, you know, when you're campaigning, we also reached out to your opponent, likely opponent, jeanne shaheen to talk to her as well, what do you think is the main thing on mind of people in new hampshire right now on the list you went through? >> sure. listen it is obamacare. the fact that president obama and senator shaheen said you could keep your doctor and your

plans and all that stuff. you know about it. the fact that she didn't do anything to help protect people's, to a lot of them to keep their plan. energy is huge. immigration right now is very big. people are upset at the pro-amnesty policies being pushed by president obama and senator shaheen. the fact that they are, we have a porous border. you have to go through security to get x-rayed and frisked going into a ballgame. if you want to come across the border and want to getit is broe fixed of. those are things people are talking about right now. martha: both sides are pushing for immigration reform. we'll see if we get anywhere, big week before we go on vacation. senator, thank you very much. we'll see you next time. >> thank you, martha. martha: you bet. bill: republican leaders believe they have an edge over democrats in upcoming midterms. do they? what we're seeing in the polls as both sides gear up what will be bruismartha: have you seen t?

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martha: nine-alarm fire in cambridge, massachusetts. flames broke out in the back of an old building, quickly spread into the surrounding neighborhood. took hours for the fire to get under control. the fire is under investigation. many families losing all of their possessions but luckily nobody was injured.

bill: rare lightning storm over the weekend in a packed beach near los angeles leaving one person dead and many injured. a young man killed on the popular venice beach. another man struck while golfing on nearby catalina island. that is about 20 miles away. a witness describing the moment when that lightning hit. >> all of sudden there was a lightning bolt and it hit here and then it hit over there as well. so, it was scary. and somebody got hurt, if not killed. so they were, t being taken away in the ambulance with them. bill: wow. catherine maine with the los angeles fire department. how are you, catherine, good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. thanks for having me. bill: strange stuff here. very unusual for something like this to happen. the pictures were stunning t was overcast day. then what happened? >> very rare for southern california to have thunder lightning event. it was overcast, hot and humid. busy day at at that california

venice beach just before 2:30 we received calls of a man floating in the water who people reported said had been electrocuted. we sent a response out and the one patient quickly turned to three. eventually the fire department assessed 13 patients. bill: no warning on this i imagine because it happened so suddenly. i know you're not a doctor. but why is it that some people actually lose their life as a result. >> that is a good question. bill: and others that have injuries that can be sustained. >> great question. i'm a paramedic but i'm not a doctor. i would say proximity and age have a lot to do with it. everyone that was treated and affected by this was either in or near the water. complaints ranged from the most severe, two people were in cardiac arrest and needed cpr, to the most mild, someone suffering from anxiety from witnessing this incident. bill: how many treated,

catherine. >> we treated 13. eight required transportation to the hospital. of those eight transported, seven were adults. one was a 15-year-old. like i said, their conditions ranged but, two, let's see the two most serious. one was in grave condition and was in critical condition of the other six were treated and transported in fair condition. bill: you say events like these are extremely rare especially in southern california. what do the experts tell you about how something like this can occur? perhaps whether or not you can get warning at all for something like this? or does it just happen literally like a lightning bolt? >> yeah, absolutely. that's a great question. i think best answered by the people at the weather channel. however, anytime there are thunderclouds it is very important for people to get out of the water and to take cover. like i said, everyone that was affected was either in or near

the water. and unfortunately in california we don't experience this very often. so we don't react as quickly as, let's say our friend in florida, soon as a thundercloud is there they all take cover. just a good reminder to heed the warnings of incoming weather. if you see anything like that to get out of the water and take cover. bill: katherine, thank you for your time. our best to everybody out there, especially injured and recovering now. katherine main, l.a. fire department. thank you. >> thank you, bill. martha: turns out afghan security forces have lost track of tens of thousands of weapons that were provided by the united states and paid for by you. now the fear is that those weapons have fallen into the hand of dangerous terrorists and that there is basically nothing we can do about it. bill: go figure. a new deal to fix the troubled va health care system and get veterans our ircare they need and deserve. will that happen.

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martha: chairman of the house and senate veterans affairs committees are expected to unveil a plan to fix the va health program just a couple hours away from that. the va is embroiled in months of scandal over claims of sometimes deadly patient wait times, falsified records and just endless stories of waiting for care of the plan is expected to authorize billions in emergency spending for new clinics and more staff. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live on capitol hill with more on this mike, what do we know about the deal they are currently working on here? >> reporter: well, martha i'm told the top two key players are due to meet right now to try to hammer out one final key issue.

vermont senator bernie sanders and republican congressman jeff miller of florida, worked all weekend late into the night last night to try to hammer out a compromise, a tentative deal. here are some key points. includes $10 billion in emergency money to give veterans waiting a a long time option to receive care outside the va system. $5 billion for new employees and construction projects. it grants the va secretary complete authority to fire immediately corrupt or incompetent senior executives while giving employees streamlined appeal rights. martha? martha: what about the idea of veterans possibly being able to see private doctors with some of that funding? >> well i'm told it would be like a va choice card for those living 40-miles or more from the va facility or those who have been waiting more than 30 days for an appointment which was the problem highlighted by the phoenix va facility. bottom line we're told that the hope is that $10 billion will

last a couple of years. republicans would like that to be extended by future congress. i'm told that senator sanders wants a firm end date for the program of a couple of years. and that right now is the sticking issue. we'll see if they can get it hammered out. martha? martha: that is extraordinary. we talked to some of the whistle-blowers in this story. they didn't think money was the problem at facilities they worked at. they thought they were inefficient and bureaucratic and that was the problem. we'll see where they get with all this money. mike, thank you very much. >> reporter: thank you. bill: there's a new government report, stunning report here, providing disturbing evidence that nearly half of the u.s. weapons supplied to the afghan army are missing. there are growing fears they're winding up in the hands of insurgents there. retired marine lieutenant colonel bill cowan is fox news military analyst. colonel, good morning to you. a lot of money. a lot of weapons over the past

decade plus. you say this is no surprise. why would that be? >> well, bill, yeah, you know, bill, we've watched in afghanistan there has been attacks by afghan security people on nato forces. there have been a lot of afghans walked away from the post, desserted to go to the taliban out of fear of growth of taliban. as we look toward withdrawing all forces by end of the year and security agreement that allows us to keep 10,000 people there. in in es we're doing is prepare taliban for onslaught they will have after u.s. and nato forces are out of there. it is inconceivable. a lot of weapons out there clearly gone to the tall a ban and clearly pakistani taliban. bill: you don't know. here are the numbers. $626 million of worth of firearms in that battle. more than 40% of those can not be tracked down. >> it is unbelievable, bill.

you know, it is clear reminder that afghanistan is the number one nation for heroin trafficking across the world. they have got this smuggling down to an absolute art science and some of those weapons that are being, taliban have their hands on, probably haqqani network also, which is a little bit different, some of those weapons will find their way to the u.s. these are automatic weapons, ak-47s, m 16s. pistols don't matter too much. automatic weapons can be a game-changer on the ground where they're used particularly environment where people are not expecting them, europe, united states, other places around the world that consider themselves to be safe but at some risk with the automatic weapons the u.s. supplied with the afghans and afghans have done whatever they wanted to. bill: what would explain why we gave them more weapons than they actually need, about 100,000 more weapons than they need, automatic weapons? >> yeah. that's a great question, bill.

74thousand weapons is what we have give then-term -- 747,000 weapons. pistols, machine guns, grenade launchers. i think those are pretty big numbers and somewhere along the line why give them more weapons they need. not the fact that they're giving weapons away or stolen or slipped into a smuggling supply chain. that we give them number of wrong weapons. a maybe of high turnover rate of americans coming and going. they are there for six months. they are there for a year. they don't get a chance to pay attention to the logistic request, logistics chain and logistics requirements. it might be a lack of accountability on our side. that lack of accountability transfers to the afghan side where they have done a terrible job keeping track what we gave them. bill: the thing you're afraid of they can be used against you. you asked a critical question, where will the missing weapons turn up? this story is out of

afghanistan. remember what happened in syria and iraq and isis, the army that has taken over in numerous towns in that wide open border. it is possible they themselves have taken over arms depot in iraq and taken more of the weapons we put into that conflict. >> yeah, it is terrible, bill. if you stand back and look at all the weapons floating around out there. i have a little bit of experience with the international arms trade. i know right at this time it is very, very vibrant. not only weapons being stolen but if you and i wanted to go buy a bunch of ak-47s out of former eastern european country that used to be in the soviet union there are plenty of arms manufacturers out there. not that you can't find weapons. but certainly weapons we paid for, going into the hand of our opponents, that is where we have a problem. bill: we may have to fight again. lawsuit colonel bill cowan live with us out of winston-salem, north carolina. thank you, colonel. martha: are voters experiencing a bit of buyer's remorse is

question today. a surprising new poll, if mitt romney and president obama were to run today, it would be a whole different story. bill: 66 million short years ago, why the experts now say it was really a colossal case of just bad luck. for t-rex. and brontosaurus. and the velociraptor. martha: terrible. ♪

bill: maybe it was just bad timing. a new study says some dinosaurs may have survived an asteroid hit had it hit a different time. some experts say some species were already dying off when the asteroid hit due to rising sea levels and volcanic activity 66 million years ago. martha: wow.

bill: that is pretty good research. an earlier strike and more dinos would have been more equipped to survive. had they survived, humans would not exist. there is a whole lot of ifs and and and buts in that bad boy. martha: that speculation disturbing to you? bill: i'm just saying. >> let's come back here to the present for a moment. we are just actually 100 days from today, because we watch these kind of things from the midterm elections. recent polling shows there is growing support for republican candidates in some states that usually vote democratic. when you see the numbers i'm about to show you see it is pretty tight. you also have the first lady getting involved in the midterm election telling voters that these midterms are even more critical than her husband's presidential elections. joining me, ed rollins, former campaign manager for reagan-bush 1984. joe trippi former campaign manager for howard dean. both fox news contributors. good to have you here.

>> great to be with. >> we put together four of the races, and most "real clear politics" average polls and show them to you and everybody at home so they get up to speed how things are looking, there is one, arkansas senate race, tom cotton at 46.3. you've got mark pryor at 43.5 in that one. do we have another one in iowa. there we go. there is iowa. joni earns. her hog castrater commercial that got her a lot of publicity. 44 to 43.3. louisiana, mary landrieu. , bill cassidy. looks to my like these races are pretty tight. >> they're tight. the critical thing here, several of those incumbents are in real dogfights. certainly may lose. and at the last living dinosaur here on fox i can --

>> two of us. >> watched this for 50 years the trend are going our way. if joe was sitting in my place he would be very positive. joni ernst developing in iowa was not a race we could win early on. she has become a great candidate. arkansas race, congressman cotton going ahead. is positive thing. two or three races that developed that gives us a 10 of chance winning six we need. at end of the day here it may even end up on election day, louisiana, if you don't win 50%, goes to run off. we may not have it decided on election day. it may go to runoff several weeks later. martha: interesting. joe, the president is criticizing spending a lot of time fund-raising, but the numbers we're looking at tell the story why he is so concentrated on that effort, right? >> absolutely. for democrats and the president you have got to hold the senate. look i think all these races are

tight but, if you look at, look at these races one by one, i think ed's right. the republicans should pick up at least four and could pick up as many as 10 u.s. senate seats. but you need six to take control. so that is, not whether any one of these seats is one that the republicans will pick up. it is can they get to six or seven? and i agree with ed. right now there is probably 10 that are in play. but also there are other seats like georgia, where michelle nunn, with very famous democratic name of a senator, and, is not easily tied to obama, is actually putting georgia in play. so very complicated chess game by both sides. and yes, the president and democrats as well as republicans are going to pour as much money as they canoe these states. some of these are probably going to be the most expensive senate races in u.s. history.

martha: it will be fascinating. when you get to september and people come off the beach and start paying attention what is going on, we'll get new numbers at that point. may be a lot more telling than what we're seeing right now. these are compilation of polls done in recent months. we talked about another poll in the tease before this segment that showed mitt romney against president obama and he would have won by double digits if that race were to happen today. now of course these things don't matter because that's over but, it is, it is interesting to look at. we should also point out they put mitt romney against hillary clinton and she wallops him in the same poll in this. what is the takeaway, ed? >> the takeaway the president is extremely unpopular and obviously a drag on the democratic party. he has got great shortcomings in the leadership front we see on domestic front and international front. to a certain extent that makes romney as alternative very popular. i think at the end of the day

romney may be encouraged to take another shot at this thing. martha: you think he will, ed? >> i'm hearing more and more rumblings. one things he has as an advantage, can raise a lot of money and sometimes you run a better second campaign than you did the first time. martha: you want to weigh in on that, joe? >> i would really caution the republicans look at romney. >> i'm not advocating. >> that's right. i think ed's right though. it is more to sort of nostalgia now, looking back. and i think they need, i think he is in the past. but he certainly would be encouraged to go. that could be a problem for republicans in 2016. >> i want to show you something that happened 10 years ago today, hard for me to believe, because i was on the floor during the democratic convention during this speech which changed trajectory of american politics. here is a little piece of it. >> there is not a black america and a white america and latino america and asia america.

there is the united states of america. [cheers and applause] martha: he looked very young that night. the presidency ages everybody. it is a very bipartisan impact on everybody. you know you think about what he was talking about there, ed. all about unifying the country. that was the major thrust of that speech, it got everybody on the feet because it was inspiring message. >> he is inspiring speaker. he should watch that speech. he has not unified. divided as much as any modern president. i say he aged dramatically. you've gotten younger. >> that is why we invite you on. there will be no asteroids coming your way. >> how do i beat that? how do i beat that? martha: go back to president obama. what do you think when you look back at that night? >> look, reality has a way of crushing a lot of idealism on both sides. i think that's what happened here.

he came into office, his many coulding into office helped to, created a lot of polarization on both sides. should humble both parties to remember that their idealistic impressions don't always last. they have to get more pragmatic. martha: at that point hillary clinton thought the presidency might be just a little bit away from her then. that speech changed that game dramatically. we'll see what happens here. thanks so much, guys. bill: you have to kiss up a little better than that. that was flat-out weak. martha: we'll give ed a little extra time. >> he can give bill love. bill: work on your material. >> i will. bill: best laid plans often run astray, especially a crook trying to steal a cash register. it does not go quite as planned. shall we say. ♪ when salesman alan ames books his room at laquinta.com,

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you can see now, getting lower and lower. >> reporter: in a normal year this dock on huntington lake is filled with tourists and sailboats. this year it rests on bone dry sand and killing businesses. he run as full service marina. his business dropped 50% since last year. >> it has been huge not having the sailers being able to occupy their slips. we can't hire typical amount of employees. we have one. >> reporter: nearby an agricultural hub, weekly food lines wraparound side walks. the unemployment rate for the year? 35% and it is expectinged to increase. >> we have yet to see the president, what he promised out here months ago, saying federal government would step in and help us out. we haven't seen much of that. >> reporter: what businesses have not seen, rain or water from the state. creating a dry spell that could devastate this area for years to come. >> if we don't have a got winter

this year, we're probably going to have to close up for next summer and find other jobs. >> reporter: while leaders continue to press for federal help, businesses around huntington lake want tourists to know they're open to try to make the most of a dire situation. bill: thank you. will carr from los angeles there. martha. martha: the you know is pushing a truce in the middle east which is a very tall order as you know after yet another cease-fire that failed between israel and hamas. a live report from the region straight ahead.

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martha: business video of the day. the braidsen bandit and we call him the fumbling felon because we had two things to call him. he grabbed the cash register. runs out the front door. oh, down. he is down, flat on his face. like how he comes back to try to smush the door on it you couldn't see in that part. so he closes the door. police in oklahoma city hope they recognize this buy.

probably not the first time. he has pretty clear sneakers. jon: bill: you think he is trying to close the door, clean up after himself? martha: not a good moment. bill: good luck, brazen bandit. martha: thanks for being with us today. "happening now" starts right now. jon: more rocket attacks in israel, which in turn spark airstrikes in gaza as another cease-fire collapses in the middle east. good monday morning to you, i'm jon scott. >> i'm patti ann browne in today for jenna lee. after almost 12-hour pause in fighting, israel retaliates. a rocket hit the southern part of the country and military sis eight others have been fired since midnight. so israel went after hamas targets in gaza, striking rocket launchers there. all this happening on the muslim holiday that marks ending of fasting month of ramadan.